Prière après l’initiation | Prayer after initiation (of a Bar/Bat Mitsvah), by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

Contributor(s): Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

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Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, prayers for adolescents, תחינות teḥinot

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Source (French)	Translation (English)
Prière après l’initiation.	Prayer after initiation.
Les enfants se placent devant le tabernacle et l’un d’eux récite à haute voix, pendant que les autres suivent dans le silence et le recueillement.	The children stand in front of the tabernacle and one of them recites aloud, while the others follow in silence and recollection.
«Mon fils, n’oublie pas ma loi, et que ton cœur garde mes préceptes» (Salomon, Prov. 3,1).	“My son, do not forget my law, and let your heart keep my precepts” (Solomon, Prov. 3:1).
Sois loué, ô Saint d’Israël, qui daignes nous recevoir dans l’alliance de nos pères. Nous venons de confesser, et nous confessons hautement, ton unité et ton éternité, ta toute-puissanee et ta bonté. Nous nous sommes engagés, et nous nous engageons à suivre fidèlement, loyalement et d’un cœur docile les saintes prèscriptions de ta loi, et nous nous attachons avec une foi pleine et entière aux espérances qui, dans ce monde et dans l’antre, seront le prix de notre obéissance.	Praise be to you, O Holy One of Israel, who deigns to receive us into the covenant of our fathers. We have just heard, and we highly profess, your unity and eternity, your almighty power and goodness. We are committed, and we pledge ourselves to follow faithfully, loyally and with a obedient heart the holy writings of your law, and we cling with full faith to the hopes which, in this world and in the next, will be the reward of our obedience.
Notre Père, nous t’en supplions, détourne de nous toute pensée contraire à notre croyance. Toi qui seul lis dans l’avenir, si tu prévois que l’un de nous doive violer son serment et devenir infidèle à la foi de nos pères, rappelle-le dans ton sein avant qu’il ait terni son innocence, avant qu’il l’ait souillée d’un parjure.	Our Father, we beseech you, turn away from us all thoughts contrary to our belief. You who alone read into the future, if you foresee that one of us should violate his oath and become unfaithful to the faith of our fathers, call him back to your bosom before he has tarnished his innocence, before he has defiled it with perjury.
Qu’il te plaise, ô Éternel, d’acquitter notre dette envers nos parents bien-aimés et nos vénérables maîtres en versant sur eux les trésors de tes bénédictions.	May it please You, O LORD, to repay our debt to our beloved parents and our venerable teachers by bestowing on them the treasures of Your blessings.
O Seigneur, daigne guider nos pas dans ce monde, afin que par notre piété, par nos mœurs et par notre loyauté, nous fassions honneur à la religion, et que notre vie tout entière soit un hommage au Dieu d’Israël. Que cette promesse solennelle et cette ardente prière ne s’effacent jamais de notre mémoire, afin qu’à notre dernière heure nous puissions, dans la pureté de notre àme, nous écrier comme aujourd’hui: ÉCOUTE ISRAËL, L’ÉTERNEL NOTRE DIEU, L’ÉTERNEL EST UN! — Béni soit le nom de son règne glorieux!	O Lord, deign to guide our steps in this world, that by our piety, by our morals and by our loyalty we may honor religion, and that our whole life may be a homage to the God of Israel. May this solemn promise and this ardent prayer never fade from our memory, so that at our last hour we may, in the purity of our soul, cry out as we do today: LISTEN TO ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE! — Blessed be the name of his glorious reign!^[1] Deuteronomy 6:4 and the phrase “Barukh shem kavod Malkhuto,” per Mishna Yoma 3:8, Pesachim 56a, Bereishit Rabba 98:3, Midrash Tanchuma Buber Kedoshim 6, et al.

“Prière après l’initiation” appears as the second prayer in a Bnei Mitsvah service for boys and girls as published in Imrei Lev: Prières D’un Cœur Israélite (second edition, 1852) by Jonas Ennery and Rabbi Arnaud Aron.

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1	Deuteronomy 6:4 and the phrase “Barukh shem kavod Malkhuto,” per Mishna Yoma 3:8, Pesachim 56a, Bereishit Rabba 98:3, Midrash Tanchuma Buber Kedoshim 6, et al.

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Jonas Ennery

Jonas Ennery (Jan. 2, 1801, Nancy - May 19, 1863, Brussels) was a French deputy. He was for twenty-six years attached to the Jewish school of Strasbourg, of which he became the head. In collaboration with Hirth, he compiled a Dictionnaire Général de Géographie Universelle (4 vols., Strasburg, 1839–41), for which Cuvier wrote a preface. Soon afterward he published Le Sentier d'Israël, ou Bible des Jeunes Israélites (Paris, Metz, and Strasburg, 1843). At the request of the Société des Bons Livres he took part in the editorship of Prières d'un Cœur Israélite, which appeared in 1848. In 1849, despite anti-Jewish rioting in Alsace, Ennery was elected representative for the department of the Lower Rhine, and sat among the members of the "Mountain." He devoted his attention principally to scholastic questions. After the coup d'état he held to his socialist republican views and resisted the new order of things. For this, in 1852 he was exiled from France for life. He retired to Brussels, where he lived as a teacher until his death. Ennery's brother, Marchand Ennery, was the chief rabbi of Paris.

Arnaud Aron

Arnaud Aron (March 11, 1807, in Sulz unterm Walde, Alsace – April 3, 1890), the Grand Rabbi of Strasbourg, began his Talmudic studies at an early age at Hagenau and continued them at Frankfort-on-the-Main. In 1830 he became rabbi of the small community of Hegenheim in Upper Alsace; and of Strasbourg in 1833. As he was under thirty, the age prescribed by law, he required a special dispensation to qualify for the office. In Strasbourg, Aron acquired the reputation of an eloquent and inspiring preacher and a zealous communal worker. He assisted in founding the School of Arts and Trades and took active interest in other useful institutions. In 1855 he convened an assembly of the rabbis of the department of the Lower Rhine for the consideration of religious questions. Aron was the author of the catechism used for confirmation as prescribed by the Consistory of Lower Alsace. In 1866 the French government acknowledged his services by appointing him a Knight of the Legion of Honor. In 1870, while Strasbourg was besieged, it was he, together with the archbishop, who raised the white flag on the cathedral. Subsequently he was decorated by the German emperor.

Aharon N. Varady (translation)

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